Voicethread: Darfur

Year 10. The Voicethread homework is here. You’ll need to register to use the site. Please just use your first name when adding your comment.

Farm game – year 10 homework

The website is www.classtools.net

The game needs to compare Yew Tree Farm (Hill sheep) and Lynford House farm (arable)

Either download the template using the blue disc icon, or save the URL in a word document. If you want you can email me your work and I’ll stick it up on this page. NJenkins@educ.somerset.gov.uk

Here’s a video that explains more about saving your game

Link to my farm game

New BBC weather forecast site – Year 8

The BBC weather forecast site is changing. Click the image below to visit it. Have a look at the current page, and then click the Weather Beta button on the top left.

Your homework is to comment on the redesign. For example:

• Do you find it easy to use? (e.g. try looking up Taunton on both versions)

• Is there enough information?

• Is the new design attractive and well designed?

Post a comment below with your views. Use your first name and the first letter of your surname to identify yourself – so that I can see who’s done the homework (and who will be doing it in Opportunities Club!)

Your comments will be seen by other teachers and the BBC, so write clearly and politely. I’ll delete any comments written in txt.

BBC weather

Year 11 – Google -up your GCSE project

Here’s an article to encourage you to make more use of Google Earth / Maps in your GCSE project. Think about using Google Earth / Maps to:

1. Identify features using placemarks, paths and polygons
2. Estimate distance and area
3. Describe topography using contours and 3D images
4. Add photos to a map
5. Create graphs within Google Earth

You can download the Horner Water tour here.

Pop Clocks year 9

I used the worldometers site at the start of the lesson:

This is the OnePerson One Pixel website if you want to have another look.

Wellington is a Happy Place

A psycho-geography project by year 8. Following some questionnaire research that established that some people in the local community were a bit negative about the town, we made a simple sign and persuaded shop-keepers to display it. Most were really happy to do so. This was a nice project – the idea that places affect our emotions is such an easy one to grasp. 

Some of the photos are displayed here or look at this presentation

Risky world

This is the interactive for the Year 9 lesson on development in Africa

Hill Sheep Farming assignment

Either go to the courtfields.org community or alternatively click here to download hill sheep document, edit it and email back to me by Wednesday 24th.

Find Steve Fossett

On Monday, September 3, 2007, Steve Fossett, the first person to fly around the world in a balloon went missing in Nevada, USA. The plane he was flying has not been found, and the search area is composed of very rugged terrain.

This website has been set up to help with the search. You have to get an adult to sign in before you can use it: http://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=9TSZK4G35XEZJZG21T60&kw=Flash

You can help in the search if you have Google Earth. Click on this link to open up the latest satellite imagery of the area in which he went missing: http://s3.amazonaws.com/fossett/geoeye-color.kml

Save Our Caves

Links for today’s lesson:

PLEASE don’t open the sites until told to! 

QTVR panorama (this might not work!!)

Learn your speleothems

Vandalized caves

CCC 

Cave bird nest 

Recipe

Cave birds 

Deadly delicacy